Ok…so my review of this show is a bit late…sue me. 

A couple of weekends ago, I inadvertently ran into the Buffalo Bill Museum.  We were driving by the mountains, saw a sign for "The Lariat Loop" and just turned (I'm like that…).  So we went up the mountain.  Quite beautiful actually.  Many places to stop and just admire the view.  Tons of trails and "mad props" to all the people biking UP the mountain.  That's just a bunch of crazy.  Anyway…

We run right into the Buffalo Bill Museum.  I'm a sucker for very small and very odd museums, so checking out that was a no-brainer.  As I'm walking around, things are starting to look strangely familiar.  Then, it hit me…GH had been here!  This is Logisti's review.  So I found the time and recently reviewed the episode on Youtube.

So…my first crack at actually seeing a GH location.  There are three main sections.  The first is the museum itself.  It's everything that you think it is and much, much less.  Well, I suppose it's ok, but I wouldn't recommend it as a "must see" destination.  The next section, and the one that I shall go into detail about later, is the restaurant/gift shop.  The gift shop is so jammed packed, I'm guessing it takes 4-5 months to do inventory.  It has to be pretty close to a Guinness record for most painted ceramic animals on the planet.  The last section is Buffalo Bill's grave.  I'm not much of a "grave-seeking" kind of guy.  I may admire one's abilities and/or life and I may be interested in seeing some of their creations or body of work…but seeing a grave, I feel no connection.

There's also a couple of communication towers outside the fenced-in area.  GH were spouting EMF nonsense all over the place.  When hearing that the towers might come down, they volunteered to come back and look around again.  As of two weeks ago, the towers were still up…so Colorado is safe from GH for the time being. 

Now…J&G came away feeling pretty good about debunking the story of the Kachina dolls flying off a shelf.  They looked up, so a huge heater and came up with the theory that when the heat comes on, it could cause the dolls to fly off the shelf.  When you don't think about it too much, there is a knee-jerk reaction to kind of nod your head and kind of agree with them.  The story is kind of "weird" to consider so seeing the heater and hearing what they came up seems reasonable.  And only seeing the episode on TV, I would agree with them.  After being there…I now disagree with their theory.  And here's why:

TAPS, as we've seen and proven many times, has many flaws.  Two flaws that come to mind is a lack of a scientific background and an utter lack of thinking beyond what they can physically see.  For example, they refuse to acknowledge any sort of atmospheric dynamic as simple as air currents.  And if they physically cannot see a window or feel a breeze (not acknowledging that air currents or wind could possibly be inconsistent…)…then the paranormal must be considered.  We're seeing this currently with all the moving doors being treated as paranormal evidence of something.

Back to the dolls flying off the shelf.  The heater does seem like a good culprit.  Only problem is…the dolls flying off the shelf isn't an on-going problem.  It happened only once.  This tells us that something else is in play.  After all, the heater, which looked quite old, has gone on hundreds if not thousands of times.  What was different?

Just outside that room is the main gift shop.  Not twenty feet from that doorway is a huge industrial fan near the ceiling.  Do they shut that fan off at night?  Probably.  Was it off the night the dolls flew off the shelf?  That is what I highly doubt.  After all, we're looking for a change.  Something different.  The weather in Colorado can change greatly over a day.  Many joke that you run the AC during the day and the heat at night.  Especially on a mountain top.  From the location of the fan, the air flow is going to split because of all the shelving and racks.  An air current would come out of that room and most likely follow the outside wall of that doorway…the wall that has those dolls on it.  The heat kicks on, hits the cool flowing air…and dolls closest to the edge get pushed off.  No need to call in Scooby or Thelma in on this one…

So I will give G&J partial credit because the heater was involved.  But without the fan being on, I'm not seeing the heater, by its placement, being the sole reason for the dolls coming off the shelf.  And since they cannot see the fan from that room and they couldn't feel the air current at that given moment…then how, oh how, could it have been that?  Seriously?  Kids…just stay in school…

I forgot to mention why I discounted the seismic activity angle.  But like Logisti, I had to give "Pete" from Warehouse 13 a few points for bringing that up.

I'm thinking that a quake, even a smaller one but can perhaps move a few dolls off a shelf, would make the news.  Not national news, of course.  But local news.  They get very excited about that kind of thing here.  It's also something that people want to "get in on."  You know…"Hey, did you hear about the earthquake yesterday?  Did you feel it?"  People get excited about that kind of thing too.

So when we get back to the story of the dolls flying off the shelf…they weren't seen by customers, but by employees.  People who live here.  People who definitely would have heard about a quake.  So…I'm hoping…that if a quake did hit, they would have instantly said "Hey, you know instead of something paranormal happening, maybe it was that quake."  Because if not…then sadly we're left with "Wow!  What a day.  An earthquake and ghosts knocking things off our shelf.  Wow!"  And that's not an answer that I even want to entertain.

And yes, it would be great if we had the actual date that these dolls supposedly took flight.  But you and I both know that ghost stories just don't work that way…

Oh, and lastly, I think I did a poor job in explaining the position of the huge industrial fan to the large doorway to the wall with the shelf to finally the heater.  I still like my scenario though.  Did I want to flip a few switches?   I always want to flip switches!  But to recreate my scenario…man, we would first need to really drop the temperature.  When I went, it was quite warm.  The heater wasn't about to kick on anytime soon.  Plus…any changes to the positions of the racks and what not would have altered the air current.  So…I'd have to really play around with that.  I mean we are looking a very rare occurrence.  The dolls have only "taken flight" once.  But after seeing the set-up…I really like the odds that my theory is correct.  It wasn't just the heater.  It's too far from the shelf and the angle is wrong in relation to the wall and shelf.